Strength · Melee
Summons hordes of zombies to attack his foes
Win rate
49.8%
B across all ranks
Pick rate
12.2%
of public matches
Public picks
411.4K
in the sample
Pro scene
2
2 bans · 50% win rate
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 7.8K · Guardian 30.1K · Crusader 60.7K · Archon 99.5K · Legend 111.2K · Ancient 61.8K · Divine+ 40.3K.
Last 6 days
49.8%
Bought before the horn
Iron Branch
Enchanted Mango
Blood Grenade
Tango
Observer and Sentry Wards
Gauntlets of Strength
The first minutes
Boots of Speed
Chainmail
Phase Boots
Soul Ring
Core items
Aghanim's Shard
Blink Dagger
Arcane Boots
Octarine Core
Mithril Hammer
The full build
Blink Dagger
Black King Bar
Aghanim's Scepter
Force Staff
Glimmer Cape
Reaver
Most-bought items for Undying in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,204 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Undying bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Undying’s average). Teams that are ahead buy items sooner, so a high number shows the item goes with winning games, not that it causes the win. Items with fewer than 100 games show no percentage. Cheap components are hidden from the mid and late game.
Arcane Boots
1,199 games
Phase Boots
352 games
Glimmer Cape
102 games
Mekansm
169 games
Blink Dagger
105 games
Guardian Greaves
201 games
Platemail
183 games
Aghanim's Scepter
70 games
Final items compared within the same purchase window (at least 60 games each), so they are not simply ranked by how late or expensive they are. Still a correlation: a team that is far ahead can buy anything sooner.
55
Use: Plant Tree: Targets the ground to plant a happy little tree that lasts for 20 seconds.
65
Use: Eat Mango: Instantly restores 100 mana.
Use: Eat Mango. Instantly restores 100 mana.
50
Use: Throw Grenade: Throw a grenade at the target area. Enemies in the area will take 50 damage on impact, and be slowed by -15% and take 15 damage every 1s for 5…
10s
Use: Throw Grenade. Throw a grenade at the target area. Enemies in the area will take 50 damage on impact, and be slowed by -15% and take 15 damage every 1s for 5 seconds. Radius 300.
90
Use: Devour: Consumes a target tree to gain 7 health regeneration for 16 seconds. Consuming an Ironwood Tree doubles the heal duration. Comes with 3 charges.
50
Use: Plant: Plant the currently active ward. Double-Click to switch the currently active ward.
Use: Plant. Plant the currently active ward. Double-Click to switch the currently active ward.
140
500
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
500
1,450
Active: Phase: Gives 20% increased movement speed on melee heroes, and 10% on ranged heroes, and lets you move through units and turn more quickly for 3 seconds.
Win rate when bought45.7% · 376 games
8s
Active: Phase. Gives 20% increased movement speed on melee heroes, and 10% on ranged heroes, and lets you move through units and turn more quickly for 3 seconds. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
805
Active: Sacrifice: Consume 170 health to temporarily gain 170 mana. Lasts 10 seconds.
30s
Active: Sacrifice. Consume 170 health to temporarily gain 170 mana. Lasts 10 seconds. If the mana gained cannot fit in your mana pool, it creates a buffer of mana that will be used before your mana pool.
1,400
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades an existing ability or adds a new ability to your hero.
Win rate when bought51.0% · 1,106 games
2,250
Active: Blink: Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds after taking damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
Win rate when bought58.1% · 546 games
15s
Active: Blink. Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds after taking damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
1,500
Active: Replenish: Restores 150 mana to all nearby allies. Radius: 1200
Win rate when bought50.4% · 1,745 games
55s
Active: Replenish. Restores 150 mana to all nearby allies. Radius: 1200
Passive: Basilius Aura. Grants 1 mana regeneration to allies. Radius: 1200 Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
5,100
Win rate when bought51.6% · 186 games
1,600
Win rate when bought51.9% · 131 games
4,050
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
95s50
Active: Avatar. Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage. For the duration of the effect, any negative effect from enemy spells has no effect. Duration: 9 / 8 / 7s Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
4,200
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades the ultimate, and some abilities, of all heroes.
Win rate when bought63.2% · 117 games
2,200
Active: Force: Pushes any target unit 600 units in the direction it is facing.
19s150
Active: Force. Pushes any target unit 600 units in the direction it is facing.
2,150
Active: Glimmer: After a 0.5 second delay, grants invisibility, 20 movement speed and a magic damage barrier that absorbs up to 375 damage to you or a target allied unit…
Win rate when bought52.9% · 340 games
15s125
Active: Glimmer. After a 0.5 second delay, grants invisibility, 20 movement speed and a magic damage barrier that absorbs up to 375 damage to you or a target allied unit for 5 seconds. Can be cast while channeling.
2,800
Undying steals strength from all enemy heroes in an area, dealing base damage as he claims the enemy's strength for himself. Deals 2x damage to creeps.
Aghanim’s ScepterIncreases strength steal.
Undying rips health away from all nearby units and uses it to heal an ally, or damage an enemy. Soul Rip can also be used to heal Tombstone.
Summons a tombstone at the target point. Zombies will frequently spawn next to every enemy unit in the area around the Tombstone, and attack them. Zombies have the Deathlust ability, which causes their attacks to slow the target, and if the target reaches below a certain amount of health, increases the attack and movement speed of the zombie.
Aghanim’s ShardTombstone can be cast on an allied hero to bunker inside of the tombstone. Heroes that enter the Tombstone cannot leave for 2 seconds nor can they re-enter after leaving. If the tombstone is destroyed with a hero inside, that hero gets stunned for 2 seconds.
When Undying dies he will instantly respawn in the fountain. Begins the game on cooldown. Cannot be refreshed.
Undying transforms into a horrifying flesh golem. While in this state, he gains a percentage increase to strength, bonus movement speed, and causes attacks to slow, apply damage amplification, and spawn Tombstone zombies.
+50% Flesh Golem Strength Bonus
25Tombstone On Death
-2s Decay Cooldown
20+4 Tombstone Attacks to Destroy
+12 Soul Rip Damage/Heal
15+20 Zombie Damage
+30 Decay Damage
10-15s Tombstone Cooldown
Strength22+2.4/lvl
Agility13+1.2/lvl
Intelligence27+2.8/lvlHow long has it been since he lost his name? The torn ruin of his mind no longer knows. Dimly he recalls armor and banners and grim-faced kin riding at his side. He remembers a battle: pain and fear as pale hands ripped him from his saddle. He remembers terror as they threw him into the yawning pit of the Dead God alongside his brothers, to hear the Dirge and be consumed into nothingness. In the darkness below, time left them. Thought left them. Sanity left them. Hunger, however, did not. They turned on each other with split fingernails and shattered teeth. Then it came: distant at first, a fragile note at the edge of perception, joined by another, then another, inescapable and unending. The chorus grew into a living wall of sound pulsing in his mind until no other thought survived. With the Dirge consuming him, he opened his arms to the Dead God and welcomed his obliteration. Yet destruction was not what he'd been chosen for. The Dead God demanded war. In the belly of the great nothing, he was granted a new purpose: to spread the Dirge across the land, to rally the sleepless dead against the living. He was to become the Undying, the herald of the Dead God, to rise and fall and rise again whenever his body failed him. To trudge on through death unending, that the Dirge might never end.
Win rates come from public Dota 2 matches (OpenDota), 3.4M matches counted, refreshed Oct 24, 2026. Tiers use the win rate in the chosen rank: S 52.5%+, A 51%+, B 49%+, C 47.5%+, D below; heroes with too few games are left unrated. Hero data and patch notes are Valve’s. Builds Forge is an unofficial fan site, not affiliated with Valve.